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Location:

LIVERPOOL,UK

Member Since:

Sep 27, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Olympic Trials Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

Triathlons are my New sport and I LOVE IT  

 

Recent last few years  as I havent done much since I was 16/17yrs, on and off injuries, going out with Friends started. Operations on injuries- compartment syndrome front of the shin had small operation to release the pressure on the fascia.

Oct 2007.  Did the great north run.  ( I was in the elite ladies race, against Kara Goucher and Paula Radcliffe, Im sure u Americans will recall that race).

 I was just in on my previous times from the Bath Half Marathon. I ran it as best as I could off my training & circumstances...

 

Decided to do my 1st Marathon with London looming in the following April I was in the ladies Elite race again.  So the training was on.  I realise now I didnt give my body enough time to recover as it did break down in the last 5 weeks of my training. Injury bound, with calf and hamstring problems I raced! 

London Marathon, April 08 (Injury calf issues) 1st marathon  3hrs.12mins .30 secs

Dublin Marathon  Oct 08  3hrs.01mins.13  undulating and 1 toilet stuck/stop (LOL)

Bath Half 2007    1.26.35 hrs

Wilmslow half marathon english champs    1.25.39

18th lady  (With piriformis injury ).

Liverpool 10k 2008 Oct 37.42mins midst marathon training 

Wirral 5k 2009 17.41mins off the back off marathon week 

Track 3000ms 10.45mins  hmmm I ran this to get points for my club so I just did tactical and ran on 1st lady shoulder and sprinted at the end !

 

 

As a youngster

County Champion for Xcountry and

High Jump

and 1500ms track.

pbs aged 13 yrs old

800ms 2mins 16secs

1500ms 4mins 48 secs

high jump 1metre 53  (cant do this now) and I never trained for it as a kid, just competed alot for points for my club, usually spend 2 hours highjumping, and skip off to do an 800 or 1500ms race then go back to high jump, Wish I took the running more seriously!

 

Run on more than several occasions for my County against Ireland county of Dublin.

Top 50 finnisher at 14yrs of age in english nationals Xcountry.


Short-Term Running Goals:

Complete my 1st Triathlon    1st lady   Brinscall  ok this was a triathlon with no timed transition i treated it as a training race to see if I like triathlons and I love them.

Complete off road triathlon  2nd lady.. 12 secs behind my age group world champion.  Tameside triathlon

Complete outdoor water race 1 mile   Salford Great north swim . 29 mins yay

Complete Olympic distance triathlon

Races for 2010  Future races.

Winter Duathlon Series Race 1 - December 12th 2010  Won  overall time 1hr 8 mins 43 secs

winter duathlon series race 2

2011  1st Lady overall time  1hr 09mins 04 secs.

Windy very windy

3rd race Duathlon winter series Feb 20th 2011

 Races for 2011

ITU Duathlon 2011 qualifier                                                               Dambuster Duathlon, East Midlands – 19th March 2011  

Qualifiers ITU Sprint Triathlon 2011 & ETU Sprint Triathlon 2012       Speedy Beaver, East midlands – 29th May 2011

Itu Standard triathlon 2011 qualifier                      Shropshire Triathlon   West Midlands 5th June 2011

ITU Standard Triathlon 2011 & ETU Standard Triathlon 2012             Dambuster Triathlon, East Midlands – 18th June 2011

London Triathlon Hyde Park ITU World Championship series race       6th AUGUST 2011  (practice format hopefully for Beijing)

 

Need to Qualify for GB Team  Beijing World Championships which is on

September 10/11th 2011



 

new pb for 5k 17.41 minsnext running goal for 5k is sub 17.30 mins Summer Track season and road 10k's & 5k's  

Lots of goals, lots of hard work and no play! ;-)

Long-Term Running Goals:


   

training pbs



swim

3750 1hr6mins 

2500 41.37 mins 29th May 2011 

1600ms 27.45

1500ms 24.00  8th April 2011 NEW PB 

500ms 7mins 38 

Cycle

42 miles 2hr 15

25 miles 1hr 15min 00s 

25miles 1hr 9mins 5secs with a decent wind! 11.6.12 

26.25 miles 1hr 12mins boooom :) 

20miles 59.30 mins 

12miles 36 mins 

10 miles 27:44mins new pb after a pb swim 8/4/11

10 miles straight out 26mins 35secs new pb 27/9/11

10 miles on turbo 25mins 35secs 

 Run 9 mile route h/town 1hr 2mins 43secs

5.23 mile route home fishermans coast bypass 

37.04 mins.

 


 

Personal:

 

 


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Its raining its pouring the old man is snoring 

 

Idiom of the day ;   I can be a bird brain......but im not a bad egg....and now I have opened a whole can of worms which Burt may have a bone to pick with me

 

 

Training-   wowsers the weather is bad torrential rain, and I really knew I couldnt run on the treadmill today as I had to do an easy run and running easy on the TM is a no go for me...just cant do it its too easy to press the faster button staring at you he he... So

10 mins xtrainer level 6 then stretched out (yes Im still stretching out)

6.6 miles mostly through the woods trails sand, sand, sand trails for approx 5 miles I ran from the gym up hoggs hill then the usual route straight through to the Squirrel reserve. HIt the roads.... back Vic Rd and straight through Gores/Liverpool Gym hey I was soaked...... the woods were very muddy so great training for my up coming xcountry races and the  roads were flooded.... it was funny cos cars were slowing down not to splash me I was already soaked so I didnt care if they splashed me he he he then the road 

was so flooded down Gores Lane that the paths were flooded too and I was running through at least a foot deep of water at some points this was fun different beats the usual boring easy run....... omg a car couldnt slow any more and splashed me the man was hanging out the window shouting sorry I just gave the thumbs up shouted its ok !

Got back the gym they think im nuts in there and said I should wear goggles next time as it was that bad I said I have some and did think about it lol

well off to the xtrainer soaked ha ha ha only did a short warm down and then stretched and foam rollered my hammy felt good I could feel muscles popping back in to place it was a nice feeling.  so there ya go.  

 

Oh I did run for fun club a running club I help run with my friend Kath at my sons local Primary school... I had a laugh with all the kids it was fun! played lots of run games as it was raining in the gym did dodge ball that was good kept them all on their feet :-)

 

 

 

LOL 

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Comments
From Kory on Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 15:57:07 from 134.50.201.14

Great run. I hear you about the TM. I can't run at a slower pace either. I think you just get so anxious because your running in place that you just want to get done quicker.

Way to survive the elements and run outside. Plus it was a good run for you because it shows mental toughness and desire to run through any environment conditions.

From sam Dean-Howard on Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 13:04:52 from 90.195.99.157

Kory Im with you on the anxious thing on the TM as yeah its just not the same as running outside......its definatly the running on the spot feeling.

Yeah I enjoyed the rain actually allot wished it was raining today but it wasnt but never mind.

From Kory on Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 13:23:31 from 134.50.201.18

Sam - I had to run on the fun TM for the first time today in about 6 months. I'm home with my daughter who now has the flu with the broken leg.

From Burt on Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 20:15:15 from 68.76.197.194

Sam - first of all, your idiom makes no sense. Second of all, you rock! Only you could make running in the rain sound so FUN!

Kory - sorry about your daughter. That's got to be pretty rough on her.

From sam Dean-Howard on Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 03:14:04 from 90.195.99.157

Burt Bird braind= silly person

Bad Egg = naughty person really not nice

Can of worms= ha ha ha

Bone to pick= question me

and yes running in the rain was fun lol

Kory sorry to hear about your daughter thats really bad how did she break her leg.....tuff luck with the flu too I hope you dont get it either.

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